Commonly Confused Words MEGA DECK
by Rike Neville © 2020
Price: $10 USD
Subjects: ela,englishSecondLanguage,eslVocab
Grades: 10,11,12,15
Description
English—no one ever says it’s easy! That we actually have a huge list of commonly confused words that trip up both native-speakers and those whose first language isn’t English says a lot about our language. Whether you’ve got high school students prepping for university-entrance exams or ESL adults trying to get that score that proves their English is “good enough” for university admittance, you probably spend some time addressing some of those commonly confused words. except/accept, access/excess, adapt/adopt, effect/affect, already/all ready, all ways/always, between/among, insure/ensure/assure, beside/besides, biography/bibliography, breadth/breathe/breath, capital/capitol, complement/compliment, envelope/envelop, *further/farther, immigrate/emigrate, infer/imply, its/it’s, loose/lose, maybe/may be, overdo/overdue, personal/personnel, proceed/precede/proceeds, principle/principal, stationary/stationery, than/then, two/to/too, thorough/through, they’re/their/there, whether/weather, whom/who/whose/who’s, your/you’re, discrete/discreet, disinterested/uninterested, advice/advise, brake/break, conscience/conscious, desert/dessert, elicit/illicit, imminent/eminent, every day/everyday, latter/later, lesson/lessen, moral/morale, patience/patients, quiet/quite, cite/sight/site, waste/waist https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/is-it-further-or-farther-usage-how-to-use
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